64 m. ago GCHQ intern who downloaded Britain's secrets including names of spies onto his mobile phone is jailed for more than seven years

Hasaan Arshad, 25, was on secondment to the communications agency when he took his work mobile phone into a top secret area and connected the device to a workstation.

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65 m. ago Diddy trial live: Kayne West makes surprise appearance at rapper’s sex trafficking trial

HSI agent testified Friday that Diddy’s LA home held guns, armor-piercing ammo, and hundreds of bottles of baby oil and Astroglide.

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87 m. ago Is Iran as close to building a nuclear weapon as Netanyahu claims?

Israeli PM alleges Tehran has capacity to make nine bombs, but this runs contrary to recent US and UN assessmentsMiddle East crisis – live updatesIn justifying Israel’s attack on Iran, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he had acted to pre-empt a secret Iranian programme to build a nuclear bomb, claiming Tehran already had the capacity to build nine nuclear bombs. Israeli officials also claimed to have presented information to the US that Iran had recently made the necessary technical breakthroughs.Netanyahu’s critics are saying he acted to pre-empt something else: a diplomatic agreement between the US and Iran on its civil nuclear programme, or even the demise of his own government. They point out that Israel has been saying for 20 years that Iran is on the brink of building a bomb. Continue reading...

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88 m. ago The idyllic ‘secret Highland escape’ of this Gavin and Stacey BAFTA winner actor

An award-winning actor is often seen serving pints behind the bar of her restaurant that she owns with her husband.

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93 m. ago Why there's plenty to like in Rachel Reeves' Spending Review for Edinburgh

The Chancellor’s Spending Review announcements should be welcomed, writes Edinburgh City Council leader Jane Megaher.

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1 hour ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder of Annie McCarrick released

A search of a house in Clondalkin in west Dublin is to continue over the weekend.

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1 hour ago Police questioning millionaire over murder of student who went missing 32 years ago

Annie McCarrick disappeared in Dublin more than three decades ago. But this week, police arrested a respected businessman aged in his 60s in connection to her murder

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1 hour ago Footage of Hainault sword attacker slashing at police shown to court

Footage of Metropolitan Police officers being attacked by an alleged killer with a sword has been shown to the jury in the Daniel Anjorin murder trial.

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2 h. ago Diddy trial live: Homeland Security investigator takes stand to testify about guns found at Combs’ mansion

A HSI special agent testified for the prosecution on Friday after judge weighs whether to show jury text message discussing violent clash between defendant and another ex-girlfriend.

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2 h. ago Grammys' launch 'suspicious' new category amid outrage over Sabrina Carpenter’s shocking album art

The Recording Academy’s baffling move is curiously timed as the singer’s controversial release goes viral

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2 h. ago Teacher's secret OnlyFans page found by 'excited' schoolboys who shared images

Kirsty Buchan, 34, was investigated after pupils at the Glasgow school found images of her posing in lingerie on the adult platform and shared them amongst themselves

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2 h. ago Blackpool teacher charged with sexual assault and murder of baby

Jamie Varley and co-accused John McGowan-Fazakerley were in process of adopting 13-month-old Preston DaveyA secondary school teacher has appeared in court accused of the sexual assault and murder of a 13-month-old baby boy he was adopting.Jamie Varley, 36, who was a head of year at a school in Blackpool, is also accused of a number of counts of assault, cruelty and taking and distributing indecent images relating to Preston Davey. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Emmerdale fans call out 'mistake' as Tracy Robinson arrested for murder

As Tracy is desperate to prove her innocence, viewers have spotted one problem

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3 h. ago Netflix Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd filming in Glasgow for new BBC drama

Scottish actor Richard Gadd will be filming in the west end of the city later this month in a new project in collaboration with the BBC and HBO.

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3 h. ago Diddy's son's secret message that could see him tossed from mogul's trial REVEALED: Live updates

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial is underway on Friday in Manhattan federal court. He faces life in prison of convicted of sex-trafficking and racketeering.

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3 h. ago Inside Israel's Operation Rising Lion: How Mossad spec ops smuggled weapons into Iran and set up secret drone factory near the capital in years

In a brazen stealth operation, Mossad was said to have set up a secret base of drones laden with explosives, tasked with striking defences near Tehran.

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3 h. ago Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o belonged to an age of prophets – we must honour his teaching

Along with other icons of African writing, Ngũgĩ taught generations how to decolonise literature, language and the mind• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87Growing up in post-independence Nigeria in the 1970s, at home you always had access to the Bible if you were Christian, or the Qur’an if you were Muslim, along with books in the Heinemann African Writers Series. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was a staple, and the plays of Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel, most likely, or The Trials of Brother Jero. Often accompanying them were books by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – I remember we had both Weep Not Child and The River Between. And even if you didn’t have them at home, you’d soon encounter them in school – they were standard set texts, from secondary school to college.These three writers belonged to the so-called first generation of African writing, the generation that started publishing in the 1950s and 1960s. The three names stood, like the legs of the thre...

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3 h. ago Emmerdale's Beth Cordingly shares 'throwback' with Coronation Street star in rival drama

The actress starred in The Bill years before arriving in the Dales

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3 h. ago 'High school teacher', 36, is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 13

Jamie Varley, 36, from Lancashire, has accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a 13-month-old baby boy, Preston Davey, whom he was in the process of adopting. 

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4 h. ago Heroic indifference: was Thunderbolts* always doomed at the box office?

A cast of indie darlings and the critics’ seal of approval hasn’t saved this supervillain spin-off – but that asterisk is a sign of monumental instalments to comeThere’s no such thing as a sure thing in Hollywood. Just ask Marvel Studios – once the box office equivalent of a cashpoint duct-taped to a golden goose, now resembling a busted slot machine in Skegness. Reports this week suggest that Thunderbolts*, the studio’s latest attempt to turn supervillain also-rans into marquee gold, has officially faceplanted at the box office despite strong reviews, a cast stacked with rising stars and indie darlings, and enough emotional baggage to ground a Sundance drama.In theory, Jake Schreier’s rowdy ensemble piece had it all: Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell’s jawline, a marketing campaign whispering “this isn’t your dad’s Marvel film”, and the sort of melancholic indie sheen that usually comes free with a Bon Iver soundtrack. Critics even liked it. And yet audiences, perhaps stu...

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